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«Cupid» is a romantic dramedy about Trevor, a larger than life character who may or may not be the Roman god of love, Cupid, sent to earth to bring couples together.

Not exact matches

When paired onscreen with actors living fully in the present — playing characters who are defined by their relationship with the lead rather than by their own complicated backstories — DiCaprio is again made to suffer.

Rather than looking at corporate work as the evil scourge of the earth (though you certainly want to make sure your personal values align with an organization's corporate values), riding the elevator to the 11th floor every day may be exactly where God needs you to develop your spiritual character, your gifts and to reach those who are broken, empty and living without knowing their Savior.

Perhaps, though, the biblical character of Jesus, rather than being entirely mythical, was based on one of many Jewish messiah claimants who had followers who euhemerized his life to a greater extent than those of other such claimants, so that in time the stories were so embellished that he became a god in them, but the Tesimonium Flavianum is hardly proof of his existence.

These words are symbolic of the Yehudi's life and are the most fitting for its close; for of all of the characters in this novel, deeply religious though they are, it is only he who has declared God's oneness, only he who has refused to work for redemption with external means and who has refused to accept a division of the world between God and the devil or a redemption that is anything less than the redemption of all evil and the recognition of God as the only power in the universe.

«Dumbo octopus & qquot; Grimpoteuthis bathynectes swims in the Northeast Pacific Ocean; image courtesy of University of Washington / YouTube Down in the dark depths of the deep ocean live more than a dozen species of «Dumbo» octopuses.These octopods from the genus Grimpoteuthis are so named for their prominent, unusual earlike fins that they use to help them swim (reminiscent of the Disney elephant character who used his ears to fly).

Hello everyone I'm jenny 35 years old single mother who like to joke, laugh and to enjoy the simple things in life and I'm a person who look beyond what maybe the obvious character is worth more than flashiness.

This page contains screenshots, real life photographs and information about all of the main characters in GTA San Andreas and the people who do There's more to Grand Theft Auto V than stealing cars.

This wonderful film could have so easily been made into a silly comedy but is fortunately instead a bittersweet drama that relies on a captivating performance by the always talented Ryan Gosling, who gives life to a sensitive character that never seems less than real.

While the Walking Dead is a bunch of characters (who nobody cares whether they live or die) sitting around talking about their feelings and who should be in charge for 8 episodes (with an occasional zombie forced in, for no apparent reason), Z Nation actually shows a full world view (with more than Walking Dead ’s

The Way Way Back does generate a fair amount of laughs throughout the film, but misses on the emotional level because of the underplayed drama between mother and son — a shame because Collette's character had real potential to be more than just a naïve mother who is content with looking the other way for everything in life.

It is frustrating for me to watch a character who is far more financially secure than most people, disabled or not, whine about how much he can't stand living simply because his life has changed from before he was physically impaired, and it is impossible for me to sympathize with it.

She's amazing in the movie as the mother who's been carrying a lot of demons her whole life, and the choices that she makes in her life are quite different than Addison Timlin's character.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Smiley is not the kind of character we usually affiliate with Oldman — who made his name on such larger - than - life characters as Sid Vicious, Beethoven and Sirius Black — but he gives a career - defining performance as the taciturn gentleman - spy.

Certainly not for even the slightest modicum of character development or dimension, as a talented cast led by Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem is criminally underserved by a script that treats their characters as props rather than actual people with inner lives who the audience are supposed to care for.

Glastonbury (15) Running time: 135 min *** Julian Temple's loving documentary may at first appear to be aimed at the sort of music fan who prefers Glasto streamed live to their TV.But this collection of archive and commissioned footage from 36 years of England's greatest music festival is likely to appeal more to diehard fans than non-festival-goers, since it revels in precisely the eccentricities that makes the armchair people dive for cover.Most of this film is a structureless, rambling celebration of Glastonbury's boozy, hedonistic, liberated, political and frequently bonkers character rather than of the actual music: great if you were at the party, presumably less great if you weren't.

But it's also a far more complex character than that, and Blunt deftly shows the other sides of Sara — the remains of the irresponsible party girl she once was, the sexually frustrated young woman out in the boondocks, the parent without a rulebook to a child who scares the living shit out of her.

Though Winona Ryder made a bit of a splash in 1988 in Beetlejuice, in which she's hilariously deadpan (befitting a character who starts out more interested in death than life), she truly became a star when she landed the lead role in one of the most demented high - school comedies ever made.

Stranded in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town on the old Route 66, he meets Sally, Mater, Doc Hudson (Paul Newman) and a variety of quirky characters who help him discover that there's more to life than trophies and fame.

Despite being an unpopular character, and that by displaying a more than dubious double standard, its network of informants gave the power to know life, and dirty, almost anyone who could be someone, hence there are those who say while breath was the most powerful man in America.

7.9, «Larger Than Life») Character: a musician who learns that parents aren't fucking around when they tell you that chicken pox can be a major hassle when contracted by adults.

The key newcomer is Joan Cusack as Jessie the Cowgirl, and she brings new life to the cast by confronting the others for the first time with a female character who's a little less domestic than Mrs. Potato Head.

But even this cuteness wears thin as Wilson and Hudson's acting breaks down in several scenes, making their conversation sounds more like close friends (which they are in real life) who are helping each other memorize lines than the actual characters.

Baker Street Irregulars will follow the «motley crew of characters who assist the modern - day Sherlock in solving cases with their unique talents,» while Person of Interest: Animated is an «anime style» show that «will extend from the TV series to deliver bigger - than - real - life action.»

Director Joseph Kosinski («Tron: Legacy,» «Oblivion») and writers Ken Nolan («Black Hawk Down») and Eric Warren Singer («American Hustle») set up characters we think we know, from Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin), the tough - but - fair superintendent who always seems to know more about fires than everyone around him; to Amanda (Jennifer Connelly), Eric's veterinarian wife who rescues horses and frets about her husband's safety while he's putting himself in harm's way; to Brendan (Miles Teller), a drug - using screw - up who tries to get his life together when a recent fling results in his becoming a dad.

After a slightly stomach turning opening sequence of mammograms that shows more variety of women's shapes than a Dove commercial, we're introduced to the painfully shy and socially awkward radiology technician Rebecca, one of six main characters who live out their everyday lives in front of our eyes.

We don't see Llewyn do much other than mope around between apartments he's staying in, smoke cigarettes and complain; but we do meet a full cast of characters who do more than their fair share of bringing this story to life.

From birth, he is the antithesis of the classic depiction of Superman, a character who believes in life, hope and protecting others rather than ruling them.

Indeed, the fleshed - out secondary characters have better material than do Sookie and her vampire Bill (Stephen Moyer), who labor under the burden of replaying for the umpteenth time the forbidden love between the living and the dead, the light and the dark.

And rather than examining why everyone in her life found the seemingly sociopathic Diehl - Armstrong so compelling à la Wild Wild Country's deep dive into the character of Ma Anand Sheela, the filmmakers opt instead to play whack - a-mole with the gang of petty criminals and brilliant weirdos who drift in and out of the narrative.

The brilliance of Lawrence of Arabia is that it looks like an epic with all the big sets and sweeping music and widescreen vistas, but at its center is an enigmatic character study of a man who lives bigger - than - life, but is as personally conflicted as any intimate drama has ever portrayed.

Watching Birbiglia drive a wedge between this collection of funny people who feed off each other's energy for a living makes for powerful, character - driven work and the cast, including a standout Keegan - Michael Key and Gillian Jacobs, is more than game bringing dramatic gravitas, in addition to comedic jabs aplenty, to the table.

But Fogelman is smarter than that and so are his characters, especially Cannavale's Tom and his no - nonsense wife, Samantha (Jennifer Garner), who initially resist Danny's dramatic intrusion (complete with football - field - sized tour bus) into their placid suburban lives, but soon realize that there are certain advantages to having a rock star in the family — like jumping to the front of the line for an elite Manhattan school specializing in the needs of children like their ADHD - afflicted daughter, Hope (Giselle Eisenberg).

Instead, Tanne approaches these characters as people who are unrepresentative of anything or anyone other than themselves — in this moment and at this point in their lives.

Thor, who has always been a muscles - first kind of character in the MCU, can easily be mocked because he's already a larger - than - life figure.

The rest of the story is fleshed out with mostly forgettable NPCs and a range of side quests — you'll solve criminal mysteries, be sent out to kill specific enemies, and help characters find what they need for recipes and artisanal work — that serve more as motivation to keep exploring the game's huge and captivating realms than meaningfully expand our understanding of this imaginative world or the people who live within it.

Imbuing a character who very easily in other hands could have been insufferable (ahem Joss Whedon) with a sense of vulnerability despite his larger than life persona.

Unlike the slick suits and killer sheen of Oliver Stone's Wall Street, this is a world of chaos and disorder filled with misfits who understand numbers more than people; from Christian Bale's Michael Burry, a socially awkward heavy - metal enthusiast who dreams up the credit default swaps that enable him to «short» the housing market, to Steve Carell's bereaved and fractured Mark Baum (a character inspired by the real - life Steve Eisman) who balances moral outrage and repressed self - loathing as he swims with sharks in the cesspool of the financial market.

The speculation for who Kesy would be playing is not confirmed, but sources claim that the character Kesy would portray is none other than «Black Tom» Cassidy, a mutant who can bond and project energy from plant life — I can already see the comedy unfolding with this one — but the rumor is that the character's name could be «Black Bob» instead which could be a simple switch for fun or a really goofy way of throwing us off the trail of who he really is.

In the film's final act, as everything starts falling apart for the characters, the optimistic air of these carefree colours reveals itself to be little more than an illusion, these pretty buildings standing in total indifference to the fate of those who live amongst them.

Screenwriters John Ronson and Peter Straughan (who very loosely based the character on Frank Sidebottom, the comic persona of the late U.K. performer, Chris Sievey, amongst other musicians) are aware of the thin line between madness and genius, but rather than exploit that tired trope, they use it as a jumping off point to explore issues as inherent to both art and life as identity, voice, creative output, and that age old question of what it really means to sell out.

Rush plays Giacometti like one larger - than - life character, a creative curmudgeon and perfectionist who consistently labours over his work, often starting, scrapping and re-starting a portrait in order to delay disappointment and other negative emotions.

While Cully (Chris Pratt), a binge drinker who doesn't realize that aggressively trying to apologize to people for being an «asshole» in high school only makes him a bigger one, and his wife Sam (Ari Graynor), who is rightly resentful of her husband's behavior, are fleshed out just enough, other characters — like Garrity (Brian Geraghty), who has to convince his wife (Aubrey Plaza) that his hip - hop lifestyle as a teenager don't define him now, and Scott (Scott Porter), who lives in Japan and has no other discernible traits — are little more than background dressing.

Surely there is a character other than Emma Thompson's who could have breathed life into this middlebrow presentation?

Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, and Stanley Tucci are all fantastic character actors who start to peel off the layers of these larger than life characters to make them more than simple cartoonish figures of the Capitol.

The actor is certainly a good match for the larger - than - life Bulger, the man who also inspired Jack Nicholson's character in The Departed (among other things).

One minute he's ordering Langdon's assassination, the next he's saving Langdon's life, and Khan plays the character as a weary contractor - consultant who's having a bad day and doesn't have the time to explain why he's much smarter than you.

At the same time there always seem to be new characters downtown doing who knows what other than making everyone's life miserable by tracking how many students have completed how much of the MAP test with how much time left and sending the spreadsheet out to everyone to try to make it like a competition.

Add characters who are simultaneously larger than life, yet completely believable, and we have a winning combination.